American Aquarium – Featuring a new band lineup that includes Shane Boeker on lead guitar, drummer Joey Bybee, bassist Ben Hussey, and Adam Kurtz on pedal steel and electric guitar, as well as a reinvigorated frontman in BJ Barham, Things Change is American Aquarium’s first release on a label after selling thousands

A good festival is a good festival no matter what condition your condition is in, but we still thought it would be fun to follow only people keeping it completely clean for half of Mo Pop Festival, and then those who were just to’ up from the flo’ up for the

Here we see the Rev. Cecil Williams holding court at the Glide Legacy Gala, one of the biggest annual charity extravaganzas on the San Francisco social calendar. This year’s Glide Legacy Gala is Saturday, Aug. 4, and the fabulous folks at the Glide Legacy Committee have offered the Broke-Ass community

The Voidz are an American rock band formed by Julian Casablancas of The Strokes. The band consists of Casablancas as well as Jeramy “Beardo” Gritter, Amir Yaghmai, Jacob “Jake” Bercovici, Alex Carapetis, Jeff Kite. [promosimple id=”d417″]

Tinariwen is one of the latest musical phenomena of truly universal calibre, and not an event to miss. The new album by Tinariwen could well have been called Exile on Main Street. But other people have already thought of that. It also could have been called A la recherché du

“Spastic electro-pop outfit Sleigh Bells will add some extra texture to an upcoming North American tour headlined by Weezer and Pixies, two bands who already made this trek a unique melding of alt-rock royalty.” – Consequence of Sound [promosimple id=”d3c3″]

The last time San Franciscans talked this much about Oakland was in 1906. The City was ablaze and 100,000 residents fled across San Francisco Bay, many never to move back to San Francisco. They say the population of Oakland doubled in roughly 72 hours. 

I love any opportunity to support the folks who support me, which is why I’m so excited to be doing this Patron of the Week series. From art to activism to non-profits, so many of the people who support Broke-Ass Stuart on Patreon do other really wonderful things as well.